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Coming to life : philosophies of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering /

The volume's contributors engage in sustained reflection on women's experiences and on the beliefs, customs, and political institutions by which they are informed. They think beyond the traditional pro-choice/pro-life dichotomy, speak to the manifold nature of mothering by considering the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: LaChance Adams, Sarah (Editor ), Lundquist, Caroline R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Colección:Perspectives in continental philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Philosophical Significance of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering
  • PART I: The Philosophical Canon
  • Plato, Maternity, and Power
  • Of Courage Born
  • Original Habitation
  • The Birth of Sexual Difference
  • PART II: Ethics
  • Birthing Responsibility
  • Birthmothers and Maternal Identity
  • What's an Adoptive Mother to Do?
  • Part III: Politics
  • The Pro-Choice Pro-Lifer
  • The Political "Nature" of Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Disempowered Women?
  • PART IV: Popular Culture
  • Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down
  • Exposing the Breast
  • Part V: Feminist Phenomenology
  • The Order of Life
  • The Vision of the Artist/Mother.